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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2012-03-21 16:34:11 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-03-21 17:54:59 -0700
commitcc9a6c8776615f9c194ccf0b63a0aa5628235545 (patch)
tree0cbbf118e86541f8eb2fc7b717a0e08eaced986d /kernel
parente845e199362cc5712ba0e7eedc14eed70e144258 (diff)
cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3
Commit c0ff7453bb5c ("cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when changing cpuset's mems") wins a super prize for the largest number of memory barriers entered into fast paths for one commit. [get|put]_mems_allowed is incredibly heavy with pairs of full memory barriers inserted into a number of hot paths. This was detected while investigating at large page allocator slowdown introduced some time after 2.6.32. The largest portion of this overhead was shown by oprofile to be at an mfence introduced by this commit into the page allocator hot path. For extra style points, the commit introduced the use of yield() in an implementation of what looks like a spinning mutex. This patch replaces the full memory barriers on both read and write sides with a sequence counter with just read barriers on the fast path side. This is much cheaper on some architectures, including x86. The main bulk of the patch is the retry logic if the nodemask changes in a manner that can cause a false failure. While updating the nodemask, a check is made to see if a false failure is a risk. If it is, the sequence number gets bumped and parallel allocators will briefly stall while the nodemask update takes place. In a page fault test microbenchmark, oprofile samples from __alloc_pages_nodemask went from 4.53% of all samples to 1.15%. The actual results were 3.3.0-rc3 3.3.0-rc3 rc3-vanilla nobarrier-v2r1 Clients 1 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.08 (-14.19%) Clients 2 UserTime 0.07 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 2.72%) Clients 4 UserTime 0.08 ( 0.00%) 0.07 ( 3.29%) Clients 1 SysTime 0.70 ( 0.00%) 0.65 ( 6.65%) Clients 2 SysTime 0.85 ( 0.00%) 0.82 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 SysTime 1.41 ( 0.00%) 1.41 ( 0.32%) Clients 1 WallTime 0.77 ( 0.00%) 0.74 ( 4.19%) Clients 2 WallTime 0.47 ( 0.00%) 0.45 ( 3.73%) Clients 4 WallTime 0.38 ( 0.00%) 0.37 ( 1.58%) Clients 1 Flt/sec/cpu 497620.28 ( 0.00%) 520294.53 ( 4.56%) Clients 2 Flt/sec/cpu 414639.05 ( 0.00%) 429882.01 ( 3.68%) Clients 4 Flt/sec/cpu 257959.16 ( 0.00%) 258761.48 ( 0.31%) Clients 1 Flt/sec 495161.39 ( 0.00%) 517292.87 ( 4.47%) Clients 2 Flt/sec 820325.95 ( 0.00%) 850289.77 ( 3.65%) Clients 4 Flt/sec 1020068.93 ( 0.00%) 1022674.06 ( 0.26%) MMTests Statistics: duration Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 135.68 132.17 User+Sys Time Running Test (seconds) 164.2 160.13 Total Elapsed Time (seconds) 123.46 120.87 The overall improvement is small but the System CPU time is much improved and roughly in correlation to what oprofile reported (these performance figures are without profiling so skew is expected). The actual number of page faults is noticeably improved. For benchmarks like kernel builds, the overall benefit is marginal but the system CPU time is slightly reduced. To test the actual bug the commit fixed I opened two terminals. The first ran within a cpuset and continually ran a small program that faulted 100M of anonymous data. In a second window, the nodemask of the cpuset was continually randomised in a loop. Without the commit, the program would fail every so often (usually within 10 seconds) and obviously with the commit everything worked fine. With this patch applied, it also worked fine so the fix should be functionally equivalent. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cpuset.c43
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c1
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 35 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cpuset.c b/kernel/cpuset.c
index 5d575836dba6..1010cc61931f 100644
--- a/kernel/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cpuset.c
@@ -964,7 +964,6 @@ static void cpuset_change_task_nodemask(struct task_struct *tsk,
{
bool need_loop;
-repeat:
/*
* Allow tasks that have access to memory reserves because they have
* been OOM killed to get memory anywhere.
@@ -983,45 +982,19 @@ repeat:
*/
need_loop = task_has_mempolicy(tsk) ||
!nodes_intersects(*newmems, tsk->mems_allowed);
- nodes_or(tsk->mems_allowed, tsk->mems_allowed, *newmems);
- mpol_rebind_task(tsk, newmems, MPOL_REBIND_STEP1);
- /*
- * ensure checking ->mems_allowed_change_disable after setting all new
- * allowed nodes.
- *
- * the read-side task can see an nodemask with new allowed nodes and
- * old allowed nodes. and if it allocates page when cpuset clears newly
- * disallowed ones continuous, it can see the new allowed bits.
- *
- * And if setting all new allowed nodes is after the checking, setting
- * all new allowed nodes and clearing newly disallowed ones will be done
- * continuous, and the read-side task may find no node to alloc page.
- */
- smp_mb();
+ if (need_loop)
+ write_seqcount_begin(&tsk->mems_allowed_seq);
- /*
- * Allocation of memory is very fast, we needn't sleep when waiting
- * for the read-side.
- */
- while (need_loop && ACCESS_ONCE(tsk->mems_allowed_change_disable)) {
- task_unlock(tsk);
- if (!task_curr(tsk))
- yield();
- goto repeat;
- }
-
- /*
- * ensure checking ->mems_allowed_change_disable before clearing all new
- * disallowed nodes.
- *
- * if clearing newly disallowed bits before the checking, the read-side
- * task may find no node to alloc page.
- */
- smp_mb();
+ nodes_or(tsk->mems_allowed, tsk->mems_allowed, *newmems);
+ mpol_rebind_task(tsk, newmems, MPOL_REBIND_STEP1);
mpol_rebind_task(tsk, newmems, MPOL_REBIND_STEP2);
tsk->mems_allowed = *newmems;
+
+ if (need_loop)
+ write_seqcount_end(&tsk->mems_allowed_seq);
+
task_unlock(tsk);
}
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index a9e99f3c18e0..9cc227d54102 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1237,6 +1237,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
#ifdef CONFIG_CPUSETS
p->cpuset_mem_spread_rotor = NUMA_NO_NODE;
p->cpuset_slab_spread_rotor = NUMA_NO_NODE;
+ seqcount_init(&p->mems_allowed_seq);
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS
p->irq_events = 0;